The New Arilion Knights Boxed Set: (A Gateway to the Galaxy Series) (A Gateway to the Galaxy Universe Series) by Jonathan Yanez

Author:Jonathan Yanez [Yanez, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Archimedes Books
Published: 2019-04-07T06:00:00+00:00

11

For all the reasons Emma wanted to escape, she understood why she couldn’t. She was part of something so much larger than herself right now. And if she was honest with herself, she had wanted to tell her father from the beginning. He was her best friend. She had shared everything with him, even the embarrassing stuff. There wasn’t a moment in her life when he had let her down.

Richard Jackson exited his vehicle holding a battered backpack he used to carry his teaching materials at the college. The plain jeans and button-up shirt made him look as though he could be a student of one of his own classes instead of the teacher. His short hair and a shorter dark beard covered his face.

His eyes sparkled when he saw his daughter, then transitioned to confusion as he caught sight of General Fox.

“Hey, Em.” Richard Jackson smiled at his daughter, then looked over to the general as he approached. “Hello.”

“Hello.” General Fox stood from his seat and extended his hand. “General Fox. I’m pleased to meet you, sir.”

“Uh, me too, I think.” Emma’s father shook the man’s hand, looking over to his daughter for direction. “Is everything okay here?”

“Yeah—yeah, it’s—it’s great,” Emma lied, trying to think of how to even broach the subject. Her stuttering would be a telltale sign to her father that she was lying. Instead of lying to him further, she word-vomited the truth. “Dad, I love you. I haven’t been honest with you over the last two months. I never went to a science camp. I’m half alien. I went to a place in space called the Academy to train. There was an alien force coming to invade Earth and I fought them back. Along the way, I discovered I’m part of a universal protection corps known as the Arilion Knights.”

Emma paused to take a breath, unwilling to look her father in his eyes. Instead, she pulled up the sleeves of her dark hoodie to reveal the purple vambraces on her forearms.

Finally, she looked up at her father. Richard Jackson’s mouth was open as he marveled at the pieces of armor on his daughter’s forearms. He looked at Emma, then to her forearms, then to the general, and back again. More than once, he looked like he was going to say something but didn’t.

“Are you okay, Dad?” Emma asked, biting her lower lip. “Sorry, I know I kinda dumped on you right now. Say—say something.”

“I—did you say you were half alien?” Richard Jackson shook his head, beginning a nervous laugh. “Emma, is this some kind of joke? It’s a joke, right?”

Emma just shook her head. She couldn’t imagine what was going on in her father’s mind right now. She had turned everything he thought he knew upside down in the space of a few sentences.

“It’s not a joke, Mr. Jackson,” General Fox looked over at Emma. “You really laid it on him thick, kid. Maybe we should go inside, sit him down for the rest.”

“There’s—there’s more?” Emma’s father licked at his dry lips.

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